Supposedly, on 2013-Apr-22, at 06.19 PDT(-0700), someone claiming to be Loic Dachary scribed:
> Hi Christopher, > > Jack Lloyd is the author of fecpp ( http://www.randombit.net/code/fecpp/ ) > and he tells me someone sent him a new SIMD approach a few weeks ago. I'm not > sure what SIMD means yet, but I'll figure it out ;-). I tend to favor fecpp > because it is more self contained and may be easier to embed than > https://pypi.python.org/pypi/zfec I'll defer, provided that we don't incur a performance penalty (which is one of the negatives in sharding). As far as SIMD: Single Instruction Multiple Data. Basically, if you think of a tiled processor (like a GPU), then you set all the tiles to do the same instruction, and stream different data to each tile. As opposed to MIMD, where each tile runs a different instruction on different data. You don't need parallel processing CPUs to make use of SIMD, but you can get them going screamingly fast if you do… Christopher > > Cheers > > -- > Loïc Dachary, Artisan Logiciel Libre -- 李柯睿 Check my PGP key here: http://www.asgaard.org/cdl/cdl.asc Current vCard here: http://www.asgaard.org/cdl/cdl.vcf
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